No? You aim for the parts that aren’t as angled if you aren’t confident. Plus 15mm more at 60 degrees is a lot less of an impact at 8.3-9.3 in comparison to 60mm at 0 degrees.
What does that have to do with preferring to knock out enemy tanks rather than alerting enemies to my position, wasting ammo, and having to wait to reload?
That you are doing any of those things anyway. Some of the stuff you said here just proves that you spend more time in the respawn menu than actually aiming.
Seriously, you stated earlier that people should aim for the 279 breech, which is notoriously one of the strongest point of the tank with only the machine gun port being pennable for rounds like DM23.
“Where else do you shoot a obj 279 or a chieftain that is hull down?”
“The barrel/breech, or don’t shoot.”
Aphe is the most potent shell type in game…
Yea, it happensnto everyone
Stabilized MBTs start at 8.3 unless you are a wallet warrior and buy the To-55
You gotta remember that these are just simple farmers… the common clay of the new west…
not at this high of a BR unless you enjoy getting randomly screwed by higher ricochet and volumetric chance
t55 aphe is incredibly strong still at this BR
Of course, Type 69 isn’t a main battle tank at battle rating 8.0 (realistic battles) with two-axis stabilization.
On God you can go even further if you remember that Centurion is a main battle tank, the earliest far from what I know main battle tank with two-axis stabilization is the Centurion Mk. 2 at battle rating 6.7;
Talking about stabilized tanks facing WW2, the problem isn’t the vehicle itself, is Gaijin forcing WW2 tanks at a higher battle rating.
It should’ve stopped at battle rating 6.7, but no: that one vehicle battle rating 1.7 higher than my T34 Heavy Tank should not go lower in battle rating, which it’s impossible to me have a match with or against said vehicle.
Is there any battle rating 7.0 WW2 tank? Except post-war prototypes and the Gaijin wonder weapons? I’ve looked into the tech tree at realistic battles battle rating and if the T-55A were battle rsting 8.0 it would never face a WW2.
How did you know that was going to happen, you really had to say it.
I forgor about this one, it should also be 8.3
yah but this is well known and its obvious why they are lower, it is their niche to be below the bell curve for stabilizers, thats a given
its common sense I think if you are decent at the game to know these two have overperformed for years
Type 69 has some shitty apfsds that’s why it’s 8.0. T-55a is fine at 8.3 IMO.
Lol no, T-62M is 9.0 and it’s much better than the T-55am. T-55am is absolutely balanced at 8.7, Type-69G could also go back to to 8.7
Doesn’t really matter, does it? The game doesn’t work like this. T-55AM was too good because of its tendency to be downtiered into easy 7.7-8.7 games. It was once 8.3, and this was even worse.
Well IT DOES, T-62M has some 410mm penetrating sabot, 115mm smoothbore gun much better than the 100mm rifled and also slightly better armor, also you seem to forget how weak the sabot of the T-55 is.
This doesn’t really matter. It belongs at 9.0.
Lol ok. According to gajin it doesn’t.
APHE has the most consistent chances of one shoting tanks in game, unless you factor in giant HE shells. Tanks from 8.0 to 9.7 strip off the bulkier armor of lower BR’s for thinner plates. This is because of the fact that for decades of tank design sub caliber and HEAT weaponry dominated the battlefield and there wasn’t a practical way to mass produce vehicles that could defend against that yet. So, tanks generally lowered armor values and increased angles to try and make up for the cuts to material quantity to save weight. I have rarely ever had the APCBC shell not penetrate what I intended to shoot with the T-55A. Can APCBC richocet off of angled armor, yeah if you shoot the wrong spot at the wrong time, just like any other shell in game. Most tanks from 7.3 - 9.3 are thin skinned enough that APCBC will work perfectly fine, with plent of frontal hull and turret spots to pierce. Hell its a meme at this point in war thunder to just shoot the massive cupolas that many tanks have and one tap them. Thats a weakspot that is really hard to defend and not expose. The M103, T32, T32E1, M47, M48, M60, M60A1 (AOS), and M60A3 TTS all have these same weaknesses. The AMX-30, AMX-32 (105), AMX-32, AMX-30 SUPER, Leopard 1, Leopard A1A1, Leopard A1A5, OF-40, STB-1, Type - 74C, E, F, G, Centurion Mk. 3, 10, Shot Kal, Magachs and all other top teir MBTs that I failed to list can easily be penned by the T-55A’s APCBC from the front on bothe the hull front, and the turret. While occasional bounces amd richocets occur due to pure RNG, the main issues of failure is player error (assuming you are experiencing many “non-penetrations”). I have had my fair share of bounces due to RNG, and while its annoying asf when it happens, especially in a scenario with high stakes, it happens to literally everyone.
Also, for those that complain about shell shattering occuring on the T-55A, you have an extremely wide array of shell types. If Sabot is shattering a lot for you switch to a different round, or practice aiming at non-problematic spots on enemy armor.